Ancient Egypt and the Near East

title, date + era/culture, location, medium (+artist)!

White Temple and Ziggurat

• 3500 BCE, Sumerian

• Uruk, Iraq

• mud bricks

Code of Hammurabi Stele

• 1750 BCE, Babylonian

• Babylon, Iraq

• basalt

Standard of Ur

• 2400 BCE, Sumerian

• Ur, Iraq

• wood inlaid w/ shell and stones

Statues of Votive Figures

• 2700 BCE, Sumerian

• Temple of Eshnunna, Iraq

• gypsum

Lamassu

• 720 BCE, Assyrian

• Citadel of Sargon II, Dar Sharrukin, Iraq

• limestone

floorplan?

Persepolis, Persian

Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes

• 515 BCE, Persian

• Persepolis, Iran

• limestone and wooden roof

Apadana Stairway

• 515 BCE, Persian

• Persepolis, Iran

• limestone

Palette of Narmer

• 3000 BCE, Old Kingdom

• Temple of Horus, Egypt

• siltstone

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Great Pyramids of Giza

• Khufu and Great Sphinx, Menkaura, Khafre

• 2550 BCE, Old Kingdom

• Giza, Egypt

• limestone

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Stepped Pyramid of Djoser

• 2660 BCE, Old Kingdom

• Saqqara, Egypt

• limestone

• Imhotep

• mastaba

King Menkaura and Queen

• 2490 BCE, Old Kingdom

• Giza, Egypt

• greywhacke

Khafre Enthroned

• 2520 BCE, Old Kingdom

• Giza, Egypt

• greywhacke

Seated Scribe

• 2600 BCE, Old Kingdom

• Saqqara, Egypt

• painted limestone

floor plan?

Temple of Amun-Re Karnak

Temple of Amun-Re Karnak

• 1550 BCE, New Kingdom 

• Thebes, Egypt 

• limestone and sandstone and wooden roof

Hypostyle Hall at Karnak

• 1250 BCE, New Kingdom

• Thebes, Egypt

• sandstone

floor plan? 

Hypostyle Hall at Karnak

Kneeling Hatshepsut

• 1470 BCE, New Kingdom

• Thebes, Egypt

• granite

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

• 1470 BCE, New Kingdom

• Thebes, Egypt

• limestone

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Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and 3 Daughters

• 1350 BCE, Amarna Period, New Kingdom

• Amarna, Egypt

• limestone

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Bust of Nefertiti

• 1350 BCE, Amarna Period, New Kingdom

• Amarna, Egypt

• limestone

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Portrait of Queen Tiye

• 1350 BCE, Amarna Period, New Kingdom

• Amarna, Egypt

• ebony wood and precious stone

Innermost Coffin of King Tut

• 1320 BCE, New Kingdom

• Luxor, Egypt

• gold and precious gems

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer

• 1270 BCE, New Kingdom

• Thebes, Egypt

• painted papyrus scroll